My boss is big into Claude code and has produced something really useful from it. Just a shame that’s a job a software developer could have been paid to do 😢

That’s the thing about bubbles: it doesn’t mean that the thing is useless, just that its value is inflated. We still have websites after the dotcom bubble burst, certainly we still have housing despite several bubbles bursting there. I would be surprised if LLMs go away entirely. OpenAI and Anthropic might not survive, but Google and Microsoft will continue. God only knows what will happen in China. Local models will still be OK. The broader concepts of machine learning, deep learning, big data etc have been useful for far longer than this bubble and will continue.

I think there are benefits and drawbacks to different gravity to earth. As you say, less atmosphere would help with air resistance, but they’d be in contact with the ground less often too and therefore have less opportunity to give themself forward momentum.

We also have to think about breathability of the atmosphere. If they need to wear some gear in order to breathe, that will slow them down

On balance, I think the boring answer of earth seems like the correct one

I got big into tidy-em-ups the last month or two. Just unfortunate that the scene is full of slop knock-offs of Librarian at the moment

They’ll all move to token based billing instead of subscriptions before long. Microsoft copilot is already there and reportedly it is not going great for at least some users.

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Not the way Ariselas typed it

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It’s uncanny, but I believe that’s Duck

You may not have toetips, but you do have tippy-toes.

Alright there Citizen Doctor Abraham Mehermblur

I really like how rotating the camera works on the track pad - the right track pad works as a right joystick, but crucially has momentum. So I could do a quick swipe on the pad and the camera would continue moving for a moment after. It also allows fine speed control by changing how quickly I swipe. Once I got used to it, I could make very quick and accurate orientation changes. Much better than joystick imo where you have to hold it down, using up your thumb for a second or two while you turn. As a bonus, the track pad also could be used as buttons so your thumb is already in position to get mashing again.

There was a bus there too and the goose lingered in front of it

Very strange that the second attempt wasn’t simply stricken from the record if it wasn’t allowed at all. If second attempts weren’t allowed, why give them a third attempt? I wonder if there was a proper way to get a second attempt that wasn’t followed, like you have to apply to the state exam body rather than handling it in house.

On the first point, it might have been a combined grade so that the fail is based on doing badly in multiple components. Eg if you take a French exam here, it’s

• 20% aural
• 55% written
• 25% oral

We only hear about the oral component because of the interesting story, but decent chance the student was a bozo and bombed the other components too.

Most of the mistakes they have to fix are incorrect version numbering.

I guess it would work much more often, but also not all currents are electrons flowing (Eg ions, holes arguably). I doubt the convention causes much trouble for people

Guessing here, but +/- is good for describing them as binary opposites as that system already exists. This is a good thing assuming there are two types of charge/pole which behave in opposite ways (Eg move differently in a field). It’s also just good to use numbers so that we can describe the amount of + and the amount of -, which numbers already do. It also allows us to describe neutral as neither + nor -, but 0. Again, we already have a scaffold there for numbers and it’s easy to copy it for new things when that makes sense.

Crust on top is not the distinguishing feature between pies and tarts. Tarts often have top crusts. The only consistent difference is the angle and sturdiness of the sides - tarts have vertical (or nearly), sturdy sides, pies have angled sides that are less sturdy.

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